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EP0545699 - Optical coatings having a plurality of prescribed properties and methods of fabricating same [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  19.12.1996
Database last updated on 22.08.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip07.12.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): NL
published on 09.01.2008  [2008/02]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Hughes Aircraft Company
7200 Hughes Terrace, P.O. Box 80028 Los Angeles
California 90080-0028 / US
[N/P]
Former [1993/23]For all designated states
Hughes Aircraft Company
7200 Hughes Terrace, P.O. Box 80028
Los Angeles, California 90080-0028 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Siebert, Edward T.
65 Route 39
New Fairfield, CT 06812 / US
[1993/23]
Representative(s)Colgan, Stephen James
CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2RA / GB
[N/P]
Former [1993/23]Colgan, Stephen James
CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2RA / GB
Application number, filing date92311021.703.12.1992
[1993/23]
Priority number, dateUS1991080486606.12.1991         Original published format: US 804866
[1993/23]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0545699
Date:09.06.1993
Language:EN
[1993/23]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0545699
Date:07.02.1996
[1996/06]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP17.03.1993
ClassificationIPC:C23C14/54, G02B1/10
[1993/23]
CPC:
C23C14/548 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   NL [1993/23]
TitleGerman:Optische Beschichtungen mit einer Mehrzahl vorgegebener Eigenschaften sowie Verfahren zu deren Herstellung[1993/23]
English:Optical coatings having a plurality of prescribed properties and methods of fabricating same[1993/23]
French:Revêtements optiques ayant plusieurs propriétés prédéterminées et méthodes pour les fabriquer[1993/23]
Examination procedure19.11.1993Examination requested  [1994/03]
23.11.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
16.02.1995Reply to a communication from the examining division
07.04.1995Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
02.08.1995Communication of intention to grant the patent
18.09.1995Fee for grant paid
18.09.1995Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)08.11.1996No opposition filed within time limit [1997/06]
Fees paidRenewal fee
14.11.1994Renewal fee patent year 03
16.11.1995Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT07.02.1996
NL07.02.1996
DE08.05.1996
[2003/07]
Former [1999/42]IT07.02.1996
DE08.05.1996
Former [1996/44]DE08.05.1996
Documents cited:Search[X]JP63273205  ;
 [A]US4837044  (MURARKA NARAYAN P [US], et al);
 [XP]EP0497499  (OPTICAL COATING LABORATORY INC [US])
 [X]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 13, no. 91 (P-837)3 March 1989 & JP-A-63 273 205 ( SANKYO SEIKI ) 10 November 1988, & JP63273205 A 19881110
 [Y]  - APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. vol. 58, no. 22, 3 June 1991, NEW YORK US pages 2497 - 2499 MARTIN ET AL. 'In situ stress measurements of ion-assisted MgF2 and SiOx thin films.'
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